Team 18 Clubhouse 2019

[josh]

Please join the Strava club. I’ll be following or requesting to follow each of you too.

Team roster (*indicates they’ve joined the Strava club):
josh* (captain)
dcvelobrew*
matteblack*
ChampionTier*
Davis_S*
CCC27*
LuisFilipe*
Shardg*
kiliscout*
jonkislin*

Hey everyone, we need to figure out a name for our team (or I suppose we could just stick with team 18). I believe kiliscout and I were the only team members at the opening happy hour last night, and so I’m looking forward to meeting the rest of you.

Quick intro — This is my second year of Freezing Saddles, first year as a captain. FS turned me into an everyday (almost) commuter, and introduced me to a whole bunch of people in the DC bike community. I jumped into the deep end and tried to ride a ton of miles, compete in a bunch of pointless prizes, make it out to social events and it worked out well for me. I’ll be commuting most days from Arlington to Herndon, and trying to get some longer rides in on the weekend and some hill rides in the mornings. I’m planning on riding everyday and hitting the 100 mile cap each week.

I’m not sure where you all are located (and was no grouping by geographic proximity), but let’s plan out some rides. I’m down to ride in VA, DC, MD, on gravel or road (probably no mountain biking for me). If you’re comfortable divulging some basic info on the Internet (and you’re all on Strava anyways), it’d be great if you could each introduce yourselves briefly.

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[LeprosyStudyGroup]

Inside the beltway Elitism at its finest:D

[josh]

Bump

[matteblack]

Howdy, folks, glad to be here. This is my first time doing BAFS. I was turned on to it by a fellow rider I hooked up with on the W&OD one day in September. I’ve been a cyclist all my life (I’m just north of 50), but only seriously since 2011 or so after rediscovering the thrill of speed on my BIL’s roadie. After a few years of sporadic riding, I exceeded my goal of 5000 miles last year (trainer miles count, right?!? lol) and am looking to repeat that threshold this year.

So far this year, I’ve ridden more outside than I did all of Jan/Feb 2018, where I rode every day, but only two were outside. My rides usually start in west-central Fairfax (I’m on the outskirts of Fair Lakes), but will take me all over NoVA. I’m also up for riding whatever/wherever, but would prefer roads/MUPs vs. unpaved paths (and the MVT!!!).

I, too, plan on riding every day and typically exceed 100 miles per week.

— matt

[shardg]

Hi, looking forward to meeting and riding with everyone. This is my third FS season 2016 & 2017, took last year off because of back issues. I hope to ride everyday, I accomplished that feat the other 2 seasons, but we shall see. I live in Lake Ridge (Prince William County) but will drive to rides. I also have several routes “down south” that may be fun for you Northerners to try. I appreciate Josh being the captain, I served as one in 2017, and it does take some work. I will let you guys know in advance that I am old, fat, and crawl up hills, but can hold my own downhill. When our Government is open I work in DC, but living in PWC I do not commute.
See you soon,
Steve

[ChampionTier]

Hi everybody! CT here. Special thanks up front to Josh for volunteering to lead TM18 (Name: TBD); great intro, btw!

I moved to Belgium last summer but wanted to add another year to my 2-year streak of BAFS participation. Thanks to the lovely folks who design the rules for this game, I was able to participate. Most of my miles are from commuting; however, on the weekends I tend to explore and do a lot of bike-orienteering around here and end up posting several photos on Strava from my rides. If you’re interested in seeing what Flanders has to offer, here’s the link to my account: https://www.strava.com/athletes/15179914

I think BAFS is a wonderful event and look forward to contributing to the team as much as possible. I don’t make it to the U.S. very often, but should be around the DC area from 22-24 JAN if there happens to be a team HH.

Best of luck to you as individual riders, to us as TM18, and thanks in advance for the motivation to keep on peddaling!

Cheers,
CT

[LuisFilipe]

Hello all! Fourth time doing the FS madness. Won’t lie first time around I wouldn’t ride bellow 50 besides a sleaze, four years later and 50 is like a warm summer day.

I plan on riding all days and hitting the 100 mile contribution or more.

Spending this month in sunny Portugal but will be around soon.

JA any idea what happened to the folks that haven’t joined our team?

Any ideas for team names?

Also will we be communicating here where is open to everyone or at Strava (My preferred choice)?

Ride on my FS brethren.

Filipe

[CCC27]

Hi everyone,

Collier here (CCC27), just joined the Strava club. Looking forward to FS-19; just completed my first year in D.C. and this is my first year at FS. I plan on commuting to work every day unless there is ice on the roads; just suffered a collar bone bike injury this summer, so I have to be a little careful as I am still recovering. I’m also up for some weekend rides, babies and mother dependent. Currently live in the District (Anacostia- Ward .

[CCC27]

Hope you get in some nice rides in Sunny Portugal, that would be great for morale! Maybe share some pics too.

[josh]

Glad to hear a little bit about all of you, and hoping we all have an injury-free, riding-heavy, rest of the winter. @championtier, we should definitely try to do something when you’re in the country. I didn’t realize you were in Belgium, that’s awesome! Have you been to any cross races, participating or just watching? @filipe, enjoy Portugal while you’re there. I still need to sleaze out in the snow over here.

Re: main forum of communication, I’m fine with Strava, email, this, Facebook, whatever. @Filipe, Strava sounds good to me. I’ll start a ride planning post over there, and see if I can get together some names.

Re: missing members, I used Strava’s invite to club feature (via email) to all of you on Friday, but I’m not sure what that looks like on your end (or how likely it is to be blocked or filtered by your email provider). I’m going to email jonkislin and Davis_S tonight to see what’s up with them, I haven’t heard anything or seen much activity on Strava from them. The other eight of us have joined the Strava club, and within a couple hours we all should be displaying on the FS leaderboards (currently it’s everyone but CCC27 who just joined).

[ChampionTier]

@josh 185704 wrote:

Glad to hear a little bit about all of you, and hoping we all have an injury-free, riding-heavy, rest of the winter. @championtier, we should definitely try to do something when you’re in the country. I didn’t realize you were in Belgium, that’s awesome! Have you been to any cross races, participating or just watching? @filipe, enjoy Portugal while you’re there. I still need to sleaze out in the snow over here.

Re: main forum of communication, I’m fine with Strava, email, this, Facebook, whatever. @Filipe, Strava sounds good to me. I’ll start a ride planning post over there, and see if I can get together some names.

It’s definitely nice here! I had one cross race that I was going to do but a work event got in the way; I haven’t found anything like BikeReg here so most of what I hear about is by word of mouth but I’d love to race next year. There’s a bunch of local events here for mountain biking and just general riding around. The trick is finding out about them

I’m good with using Strava to communicate. I love coming back to the forum from time to time, but Strava is a little more accessible, IMHO.

Happy riding!

[kiliscout]

Hi everyone! I’m Teresea (aka KiliScout) and I live in Arlington, in the Fairlington neighborhood. This is my first time doing Freezing Saddles, and I aim to ride about 40 miles a week, mostly as part of my commute to DC, and some occasional weekend rides. It’s my goal to ride at a minimum 70 days during the FS timeframe, even if some of those are just for the single mile. I’ve trained my dog to run beside my bike, so I’ll take him on a one-mile route around my block on the days I don’t do a longer ride.

I’m up for riding on the road, gravel, or local trails, and am happy to venture into Maryland for a change of scenery!

My cross bike is headed into the shop today, so I’ll probably be slacking on the miles this week, but will at least get my road bike out for a couple loops around my neighborhood.

Regarding communications, Strava works for me. I look forward to meeting some of you at a bike ride or happy hour!

[kiliscout]

Possible team name — Spokes ‘n Ice? Or Spokes and Ice?

[kiliscout]

Or “IceCycles”

[matteblack]

Belgium and Portugal…sounds like we should have a field trip across the pond! Nice to “meet” everyone and look forward to doing so in real life. I’m partial to Strava to communicate as I’m on there pretty much every day (and it’s easy on my phone), whereas I find the forum to be antiquated (unless I just haven’t configured my settings to get notifications on new posts).

I’ve sleazed a couple days — and it looks like my .2 mile ride Sunday night counted — but was able to get out in it today. Overall the roads are clear, but a couple neighborhood streets had some chunky (sort of slushy) ice where I had to unclip to keep from kissing the ground, but overall it was a good ride. (Of course, I now need to wash my bike, but that just means it got some use!)

[jrenaut]

Morning! Your team is showing 11 players on the scoreboard – can you please make sure only the 10 authorized players are part of your Strava team until at least after happy hour?

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